Thursday, 11 July 2013

Hunters, Explorers and Adventurers - Part 1

The latest additions to my collection are these models from Foundry's Darkest Africa range.

Starting off with a pack called 'Clean limbed British officers and adventurers' which is a brilliant title, and has some fantastic models, and even includes an Allan Quartermain (middle left) who's one of my favourite characters.

This next pack is called 'eccentric explorers', which is actually a group of historical explorers of Africa. from left to right, Sir Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Dr Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Sir Samuel Baker, and the German Carl peters. Another great set, with some of the key characters of the Victorian era in Africa.

And finally 'big game hunt' which includes a German hunter, some native helpers and a lion to hunt.

And what are these for? Well the idea is to go hunting, but hunting for dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasties! In the deepest African jungle in the year 1890, some mysterious creatures have been spotted and the race is on to bring back specimens to the great Museums in London and around Europe. Not entirely sure on rules yet, will be homebrew of some sort, and we plan to have a bit of fun with this.

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Hi, I'm Keith, this is my blog. I've been collecting and playing with toy soilders and making models since I was 12 and have decided to show them to anyone willing to look. This blog will be a mixture of my latest painted miniatures, rules musing, the odd trips to historic sites and anything else that takes my fancy, this is just a record of my hobby wanderings. I collect and game with fantasy and sci-fi miniatures (mainly but not exculsivly Games Workshop), historical figures (mostly 1/72 scale or 1/3000 scale for naval), a variety of board games and make the odd scale model (mainly airfix). I'm very much a 'hobby butterfly' so who knows what will end up here.